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...41st floor office in New York City's midtown, Kennedy, a former assistant district attorney, says the glossy nonpartisan bimonthly will be a "fan magazine, a Rolling Stone of politics" (referring to the magazine that covers U.S. culture with an emphasis on music). He picks up a notebook and draws a big circle labeled politics intersected by satellites of books, Hollywood, media and music. "Instead of writing about the highest-grossing film, we'll write about the best campaign ad." Kennedy, who has a habit of referring to himself as "sort of'' an editor, laughs at his own doodling. Serious...
...Francisco city government became so corrupt that a citizens' Vigilance Committee took over, violently. The year was 1856. Across the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman watched with approval. He wrote in his notebook, "These [United] States need one grand national Vigilance Committee, composed of the body of the people," to overthrow the government in Washington. Walt Whitman...
...songs are both more whimsical and more interesting. Dumb Fun, a vertiginous number with sporadic bass-guitar spasms, was composed by stringing together semi-random passages from a notebook of ideas Hatfield had been keeping for about six months. "Had a heart by accident," goes one line of the song. Another track, the idiosyncratic Fleur de Lys, is sung entirely in French...
...long-lost notebook detailing French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's army experiences during World War II was published in Paris. The work, titled Notebook from the Phony War, describes the renowned existentialist's boredom and exasperation with army life and contains affectionate references to "my dear Beaver"-that is, his mistress and close companion, the writer Simone de Beauvoir. Scholars hailed the book as the most interesting of Sartre's wartime writings...
Formal lessons in piano and composition began at age six. Elkies says he wrote about 300 pieces, all of which his mother has kept in a notebook, when he was very young. He jokes about most of the pieces, "It's just as well that they're stuck in that notebook...